You still don't know??? Don't you own a jack? You would be looking for a chunk of oil saturated metal on the ground (or belly pan if you still have one) and a hole in the engine.

 

I do own a jack, but im not a big fan of going outside when its 5 degrees out looking for it. In the dark. Id look but frankly, i woudlnt be knowing what to look for. I put the car in N today and moved it to shovel up the 5 quarts of oil, but i didnt find any metal anywhere.

 

Yeah I guess it doesn't really matter. From all that you've described Id say there is a 99.5% chance that you have a hole in the side of your block.

 

yeah im really not looking forward to it, and also its soooo dissapointing saving up pay checks to pay for other parts wrong when this goes wrong haha. Gotta love life huh

 

At the same time, you probably could swap in another motor - a 12v engine is seriously inexpensive. If you can do part or all of the work, you could have your car back on the road for not a lot of money.

 

but its probably not going to warm up in ME for another 2 months atleast and it sounds like he doesnt have a garage. an engine swap would be cheap but no fun this time of the year outside.

 

It'll probably be longer than that. I understand about no garage and that sucks, but there's always the hope that a friend somewhere may be able to donate garage space for a weekend.

 

yeahh i have a garage but my parents have rule over it with their cars. And my garage doesnt even have half the tools id need. I have a friend who has alot of audi experience and has an a4 of his own, but hes away in the military until june, soo thats not really an option. Im looking at a 97 vr6 jetta for 500 tho until then! wahoo!

 

Call shokan and have them send you a used engine, screw parting out cars, i have had my fair share of doing that and its just not fun unless you are a reputable autowrecker. I would agree with onepoint8tee, starting any engine with that temp that doesn't have a block heater isn't a good idea.

 

does shokan buy cars? Could they buy mine, or how do they work it.